SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION HISTORY OF ART SENIOR FELLOWJohn Siewert
College of Wooster
James McNeill Whistler and the Aesthetic Landscape of London

SMITHSONIAN MINORITY AWARDS PROGRAM VISITING STUDENTHamidreza Jayhani
The Art University of Isfahan
Comparative Study on the Perceptible Images from Poets and Painters Stance to Recognize the Structures of the Open Spaces in the Illustrated Garden’s Scenes from 14th to 16th Centuries CE

Lamia Balafrej
University of Aix-Marseille I
Illustrated Manuscripts of Sa'dî in the Freer and Sackler Galleries

CONSERVATION OF MUSEUM COLLECTIONS POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIPElisabetta Polidori
Scuola di Alta Formazione
Survey of Islamic Art on Paper from the Collections of the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, and Scientific Investigation of a Group of Illuminated Folios from the Gulistan.

SMITHSONIAN ARTIST RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP
Avish Khebrezadeh
Independent Scholar
Animal Behavior and the Role of Animal Imagery in Allegorical Contexts

Smithsonian Institution History of Art Fellows

Terra Foundation for American Art Postdoctoral Fellow
Prudence Ahrens (shared appointment with the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
University of Queensland
Travelling Modernisms: American Art and the South Pacific

Elizabeth Lee (shared appointment with the Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Dickinson College
Therapeutic Culture: Health and Illness in Turn-of-the-Century American Art

Smithsonian Institution History of Art Predoctoral Fellows

Brinda Kumar
Cornell University
Collecting South Asian Art: Analyzing Private Positions, Public Narratives and the Writing of Art History

Seung Yeon Sang
Boston University
Influence and Reception of Hybrid Ceramics: The Ceramic Production of the Japan House Kilns during the 17th to 18th Centuries

Please note: The Freer Gallery of Art will be closed to the public from January 2016 until summer 2017. The Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Library, and Archives will remain open for the duration of the renovation. Learn more »